Understory vegetation communities are critical components of forest ecosystems. As a result, the importance of modeling understory vegetation characteristics in forested landscapes has become more apparent. Abundance mea ...

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is an emerging remote-sensing tool that can provide
fine-scale data describing vertical complexity of vegetation relevant to species that are responsive to forest
structure. We used ...

Large-scale commercial thinning of young forests in the Pacific Northwest is currently promoted on public
lands to accelerate the development of late-seral forest structure for the benefit of wildlife species
such as n ...